Quotes about Ethics
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
- James Madison
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
- John Quincy Adams
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
- John Tillotson
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Joseph Addison
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
- William Hazlitt
The wealthiest man among us is the best
- William Wordsworth
Only men of character are trusted.
- Zig Ziglar
A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
- Confucius
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
- Confucius
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius